Do you love hot air ballooning? Perhaps you've never been up in one, but you're fascinated with their vibrant colors, or the spectacle of seeing many hot air balloons in the sky at the same time.This is a 120 page lined notebook with a small box on each page where you can quickly sketch or make notes of all the hot air balloons you've seen or imagined. Perhaps you are a designer or an artist, and will use this notebook as a journal to record your thoughts and inspirations about hot air balloons. However you choose to use it, this 6X9 inch notebook will be a useful tool to bring with you to hot air ballooning events or to just sit and doodle your dreams and jot down ideas. Take a look at the inside so that you can imagine how you'll use it to make notes about your favorite hobby, pastime or obsession.According to Wikipedia, a hot air balloon is a lighter-than-air aircraft consisting of a bag, called an envelope, which contains heated air. Suspended beneath is a gondola or wicker basket (in some long-distance or high-altitude balloons, a capsule), which carries passengers and a source of heat, in most cases an open flame caused by burning liquid propane. The heated air inside the envelope makes it buoyant since it has a lower density than the colder air outside the envelope. As with all aircraft, hot air balloons cannot fly beyond the atmosphere. Unlike gas balloons, the envelope does not have to be sealed at the bottom, since the air near the bottom of the envelope is at the same pressure as the surrounding air. In modern sport balloons the envelope is generally made from nylon fabric and the inlet of the balloon (closest to the burner flame) is made from a fire resistant material such as Nomex. Modern balloons have been made in all kinds of shapes, such as rocket ships and the shapes of various commercial products, though the traditional shape is used for most non-commercial, and many commercial, applications.The hot air balloon is the first successful human-carrying flight technology. The first untethered manned hot air balloon flight was performed by Jean-Francois Pilatre de Rozier and Francois Laurent d'Arlandes on November 21, 1783, in Paris, France, in a balloon created by the Montgolfier brothers. The first hot-air balloon flown in the Americas was launched from the Walnut Street Jail in Philadelphia on January 9, 1793 by the French aeronaut Jean Pierre Blanchard. (One wonders why it was launched from a jail. Was he imprisoned for his passion or was it the only flat roof for miles around?)Hot air balloons that can be propelled through the air rather than simply drifting with the wind are known as thermal airships.